I’m beginning to wonder when I’ll be able to sleep a whole night through again. Even more than 3 hours of solid, uninterrupted sleep would be a little slice of heaven. Some nights I don’t even get that.
I know what they say, it’s teething or developmental stress, etc., etc. All I know is that Luigi actually slept through the night for about a week when he was 4 months old. And that was the last time.
Before that he was waking to eat and after that, well..
After that it was teething, then moving to a new house, then learning to crawl, then a cold, then teething again, then another cold, then learning how to walk, then learning new words, then another cold….well, you get the picture. When he’s teething or has a cold he can’t stand to lay down, so those are the worst times. Then I spend most of the night propped up in a lounge chair with him on my shoulder. He’ll sleep for about a half hour, then start crying again so I have to bounce him or get up and walk around a little bit.
Last night seemed to be fairly good at the start. He went to bed at 9:30 and slept until 11:30. Then I walked him around until he fell back to sleep again. Not too bad except that he was up again before 1:00 and there was no going back to sleep. He cried, talked, or just put his head on my shoulder, but sleep was far away. The last time I looked at the clock was 3:15. A little while after that I finally got him to sleep again, but then he was up before 6:00.
Putting him in his crib is useless, he’s just up on his feet and crying, so I take him into the living room to let O get some sleep. It doesn’t make sense to have two sleepless people in the house.
But, I still have to wonder when I’ll sleep again. When he’s 2, 3? It’s a long time to wait, but how long will it really be?
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I wish I could say it’s going to happen soon, but I’m sleepless too. Pata did sleep well for a few months, 8-13, if i remember correctly. But then her 1-year molars started coming in and she hasn’t slept well for one reason or another ever since. Now we have canines (they’ve been coming in for THREE MONTHS!,) a cough leftover from tonsilitis she had a month ago and a really bad head cold she caught last weekend. This is going to sound crazy but I’m finally used to it, I think my body has just given in to going on without sleep. I never thought it would happen. I also have a messy house, fifty or so blog posts rthat will never be written but are bouncing around in my head, hair that hasn’t been cut in almost a year, etc. I just decided to revise the definition of what is normal for my life. I know that’s not helpful at all, but I just wanted to let you know you’re not alone.
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Mary Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Thanks KC, it does help. I try to work while he’s sleeping, which means I can’t grab a nap too. When he’s awake he’s extremely demanding. Fortunately my parents are here visiting, so they keep him occupied a little, but just a little. If I’m out of the room too long he comes looking for me. (I have people telling me he’s too attached to me too, but that’s another story). Yes, my house is a mess and there’s lots of stuff like blog posts and other work that I could be doing that just isn’t going to get done for a while. But, it helps to know that I’m not the only one.
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Have you tried bringing him into bed with you when he waked up? I know some people are against this but it worked for us. Also when he had a cold have you tried something that puts moisture into the air? We used to use a vaporizer but now I think there is something. When they are little it can be really frustrating trying to figure out what works- but in the overall scheme of things the baby stage lasts but a blink of an eye.
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Mary Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 10:26 am
The vaporizer does help Cathy. I’ve used it and, although a lot of people wouldn’t agree with it, once he wakes up, I often do bring him into bed with me. But, he seems to have just as much trouble sleeping there lately. It’s like he can’t get comfortable and wakes up. If I walk him around for a little bit, he’ll usually go to sleep and I can put him back in his crib. The only problem with that is – by that point I’m fully awake and I’ve never been able to fall asleep easily, so by the time I’m falling back asleep, he’s waking up again. Thanks for the suggestions though. I’ll just keep trying.
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Cathy Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
That is the hardest thing abaout babies, they can’t tell you what is wrong. My son was touchy- he would get too warm, I had to cut the feet out of his sleepers, becausse his would get too sweaty. At one point I thought I would go out of my mind. As he got older, he was really picky about the way things felt on his skin. I can remember opening packages of socks in the store to feel them. He couldn’t stand the under arm seems in tshirts, etc. Fortunatley he eiather outgrew it and/or got used to it.
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Mary Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Yes, there have been a few times when he has woken up from being too warm. I had to learn not to put too many covers on him. Lately it seems like he just can’t sleep still. He keeps moving until his head hits the top of the crib a couple of times and then that wakes him up (among other things). Although last night he actually slept from 9:30-1:30, after that we were up another 4 times, but it was nice to have a few solid hours of sleep.
Maybe when he gets out of college and gets married!
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Mary Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 10:27 am
That’s what I’m afraid of.
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